Debian 5.0: DSA-1838-1 Critical: Pulseaudio Local Escalation Issue

Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes discovered that the pulseaudio daemon
does not drop privileges before re-executing itself, enabling local
attackers to increase their privileges.

The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this issue.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.10-3+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your pulseaudio packages.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

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